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KF5JRV > TODAY 05.06.19 12:39l 7 Lines 1017 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Today in History - Jun 05
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A huge section of the city of Constantinople, Turkey, is set ablaze onthis day in 1870. When the smoke finally cleared, 3,000 homes weredestroyed and 900 people were dead.A young girl was carrying a hot piece of charcoal to her family’skitchen in an iron pan when she tripped, sending the charcoal out thewindow and onto the roof of an adjacent home. A fire quickly spread downFeridje Street, one of Constantinople’s main thoroughfares.The Christian area of the city was quickly engulfed. There was a highdegree of cooperation among the various ethnic groups who called thecity home, but even this was no match for the high winds that drove therapidly spreading fire. An entire square mile of the city near theBosporus Strait was devastated. Only stone structures, mostly churchesand hospitals, survived the conflagration.In 1887, Edmondo de Amicis published perhaps the best account of thisdisaster in a book called Constantinople.
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